Ooo, pastels. Funfunfun. *ahem* Anyways, yes I have several tips. *counts fingers* Okay, two. First, there are a new style of pastels that are IDENTICAL in the outcome of your drawing, called....um....I forget, but I'll describe them. They generally are the same except they have the viscosity of a greasy crayon, so that they aren't nearly as messy, and you don't need your finger to swirl them. I literally did two identical drawings: one with general pastels and one with the crayon-pastels, and the crayon-pastels actually were a little more vibrant. You may want to go to an art store to check them out (pun not intended), and sorry for forgetting it's name.
Secondly (I hate that word....), if you DO decide to stick with what you got, you can use one of those pallette thinghies that artists in the movies always use for swirl effects and the like - and to apply them, there is a glass/plastic pastel-shaped, chemical-doused thing to pick up little bits of the colour, and they imitate the outcome of real pastels. Another neat thing about using a pallette is that if you have an old cosmetics kit (I got mine from my sister, so don't hold it against me) you can use little applicators to get different kinds of effects. I did a neat little pointalism(sp) picture using fuzzy ones and hard ones. That's all I got, and I hope I contributed some.
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